When I prepare myself for bed. As a teenager, I was taught that poetry should be more serious. It was art – and art took itself seriously. Even now, poems designed to make us laugh are often dismissed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images If the hustle and bustle of the season is draining your holiday spirit, a few funny Christmas poems might be just ...

Edward Hirsch is one of the country’s most celebrated poets, which would have been a big surprise to his mother. She warned him growing up, “Poetry is fine so long as it sells products. Otherwise it’s ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve been a ...

Grand Rapids-based The HaiCuu Experience meets comedy! Featuring an eclectic blend of local comedians and poets, the first HaiComedy Experience will be held at AllArtWorks Viewing Studio for one night ...

Derrick Brown’s comedy & poetry album 'A Close Shave with Heaven' is out today via PGF Records. Hailed as an "exuberant debut" (Paste), the album was recorded live in Boston with intro by Eugene ...

“Life of Pi” — a theatrical adaptation of the popular novel about a boy who survives a shipwreck, befriending an untamed tiger along the way — took Broadway by storm a few years back, and the national ...

The Loveland Poet Laureate program will host Encountering a Poet at noon-2 p.m. Saturday, Jan 3, at the Loveland Public Library, 300 N. Adams Ave. Celia Turner will present the poetry of Camille Dungy ...